VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage 683
theodp writes "Valleywag reports on legendary Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tom Perkins' WSJ op-ed on class tensions, in which the KPCB founder and former HP and News Corp. board member likens criticism of the techno-affluent and their transformation of San Francisco to one of the most horrific events in Western history. 'I would call attention to the parallels of Nazi Germany to its war on its "one percent," namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the "rich,"' Perkins writes. 'There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these "techno geeks" can pay...This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent 'progressive' radicalism unthinkable now?"'"
Re:Pathetic (Score:5, Funny)
A better comparison would have been the French revolution.
"Let them eat Apples"
Re:A short list of things that are like the Holoca (Score:5, Funny)
Oh! Oh! Is it raising taxes a few percent?
Re:Oy (Score:0, Funny)
> We need a lot _less_ programmers than we have now
If they actually knew their syntax, we'd need far _fewer_ programmers. Thank you for demonstrating the problem quite succinctly.
Re:Oy (Score:5, Funny)
You're forgetting something - the attitudes of industrialists in that time. They viewed their workers as their proteges, someone to educate to proper ethics, morals and so on.
Did you know that Ford, for example, required his workers to adhere to a very strict moral code, down to having inspectors whose sole job was to visit families of workers to ensure that they were living a moral life?
Education was built by the same people. So while it took job training as a part of it, much of it was about that particular form of patriotism.
Nowadays elite's ethical code is completely demolished and slaved to pure (self) destructive egoism.